Sentences with phrase «alpha particles only»
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«They've succeeded finally in achieving a lifetime limited only by the power available to the system,» says particle physicist Burton Richter of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who sits on a board of advisers to Tri Alpha.
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Curium was only discovered in 1944, by Glenn Seaborg and his collaborators at the University of California, Berkeley, who, by bombarding atoms of plutonium with alpha particles (atoms of helium) synthesized a new, very radioactive element.
It was only in 1940 when Corson, Segre, and MacKenzie at the University of California synthesized the new element by bombarding alpha particles against bismuth.
An excellent start: I would remind all detractors that «we» (the experiment was done by men far more elegant than I) only found the nucleus of the atom by observing alpha particle strikes on the detector in places the observers did not expect them.